[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] dev/maintainer workflow security

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:32:06 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > >   - personal security (keep commit credentials secure from theft)
> > 
> > This second one is a bit of a red herring:  Assuming you did steal my
> > credentials, how would you use them without being detected?
> 
> If the credentials can be used both to push to ra.kernel.org and to access 
> your "local" copy of the GIT repo (on your notebook / desktop / storage), 
> I can just push the malicious commit (*) to both repos and you might not 
> notice immediately (because you wouldn't get non-fast-forward hint from 
> git).

Actually, I do development on a different box than I push with. Thus,
if someone did modify both that box and my korg repo, I would notice a
problem as soon as I push my development box to the box I push with.

Now the attacker would need to compromise that development box too.

-- Steve